Let's work together: marketing tools for women farmers Tanzania's mountains
The women belong to the group TIAME, a farming group in the village of Peko-Misegese, in Morogoro. “TIAME” is the local language for “lets us work together”. This group produces various crops including vegetables, beans, sunflower and round potatoes but accessibility to market information is a big problem.
How ICTs can help these women? The aim of this GenARDIS project is to improve women’s crop marketing chain and farmers’ household income through using ICTs in the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania. Ruth Madulu, from the Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI), the the Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives that serve as a national coordination center for coconut and biotechnology research, are leading the initiative. The idea is to train female farmers in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phone and radio in crop marketing. Read more
